Evolution Scripture and Science

Are naturalistic and Christian creation irreconcilable ideologies? In this collection of B. B. Warfields writings editors Mark A. Noll and David N. Livingstone demonstrate that theologians have not always thought so. Around the turn of the twentieth century Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield believed that synthesizing his commitment to the scientific validity of evolution and to the inerrancy of the Bible was an attainable theological task. By drawing reasonable distinctions among Darwinism Charles Darwin and evolution he was able to accept the probability of evolution while denying the implications of full-blown Darwinism. In the realm of inerrancy and evolution Warfields writings exemplify civil Christian scholarship and shrewd scientific discernment. The editors have carefully gleaned Warfields writings on evolution and inerrancy from theological essays book reviews lectures and historical papers. Editorial headnotes introduce the reader to each articles context and content. However the editors let Warfields articles speak for themselves and inform the contemporary dialogue between science and theology. Referring to the current debate the editors concur that One way of jolting discussion about science and theology out of the fervent but also intellectually barren stand-offs of recent decades is to note one of the best-kept secrets in American intellectual history: B. B. Warfield.